1682 in science

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The year 1682 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

See also: 1681 in science, other events of 1682, 1683 in science and the list of years in science.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Discoverys 3 Botany 4 Exploration 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Astronomy

• A comet is observed, which later becomes known as Comet Halley, after Edmund Halley successfully predicts its return in 1758

[edit] Discoverys

• Antony Van Leeuwenhoek dicovered the banded pattern of musel fibers

[edit] Botany

• John Ray publishes his Methodus plantarum nova, which sets out his system to divide flowering plants into monocotyledons and dicotyledons

[edit] Exploration

• René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle canoes down the Mississippi River, naming the Mississippi basin Louisiana in honour of Louis XIV

[edit] Births

• July 10 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (died 1716)
• Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (died 1771)

[edit] Deaths

• J. J. Becher (born 1635), German physician and chemist.
• Jean Picard (born 1620), French astronomer.